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5 - Greening Innovation, Industrial and Competition Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

Grégory Claeys ,
Marie Le Mouel ,
Simone Tagliapietra ,
Guntram B. Wolff  and
Georg Zachmann
Grégory Claeys
Affiliation:
Bruegel
Marie Le Mouel
Affiliation:
Bruegel
Simone Tagliapietra
Affiliation:
Bruegel
Guntram B. Wolff
Affiliation:
German Council on Foreign Relations
Georg Zachmann
Affiliation:
Bruegel
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Summary

This chapter discusses the importance of technological progress for achieving climate goals and how innovation, industrial and competition policies can work as powerful engines to spur decarbonisation and what it would take to ensure that the decoupling of economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions occurs at the speed necessary to reach climate neutrality by 2050.

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green innovationclean techindustrial policy
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The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation
Implications and Policies
 , pp. 160 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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